Rice Husk as a Local Resource in Developing Energy Security

To enhance the income and to reduce the poverty one has to look at the village level industries. One of the major village level industries is food-processing industry. In the eastern part of India rice mills may be categorized under major industries. These rice mills, due to scarcity of grid electricity, had shifted to diesel based captive power generation and, of late mostly shifted to biomass gasifier based power generation systems using their own byproduct, the rice husk, to replace diesel and thus saving both cost and diesel and, at the same time going renewable.